I am creating - Just finished day one of painting the study bookcases. Also in progress - a prayer meditation on the Ignatian movements of consolation and desolation in my art journal using one of the psalms, the labyrinth and the poetry of TS Eliot.

I am going - Nowhere today. I've been home based apart from walking the dog.

I am wondering - Whether the paint is ever going to dry.

I am reading - The Cat, a Complete Guide, by Claire Bessant, a beautifully illustrated hardback guide and Christmas present from DH to all things feline - 70p at the animal protection shop for a good as new, book which is worth nearly £20 new. The best 70p ever spent!

I am hoping - To turn the study into that quiet, Shaker-like sanctuary I always wanted! Hoping...

I am looking forward to - Going away on retreat in a month's time.

I am learning - To be brave and step out without worrying what other people might think about me.

And the house - I'm getting there - apart from piles of books from bookcase one strewn all over the study.

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Growing Greenpatches is about gardening. Like its predecessor, it's to do with cookery - finding the right ingredients. It's about creativity, searching, journeying and pilgrimage, music,poetry, prayer and procrastination. Oh - and peanuts... No, only joking; I had to find something else beginning with the same letter - old habits die hard! In short, a right old pot-pourri of all the bits'n bobs that make up the life of one very ordinary middle-aged empty nester looking to make sense of her calling, and, maybe helping other people to do the same along the way.

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About Me

Seven years ago I signed up to a Methodist Church Lent Simple Living Campaign and Greenpatches blog Mk 1 was born. In 2009 I signed on the dotted line as a Franciscan tertiary, leaving the order in early 2016. Five years ago I signed up for formation as a spiritual companion; accompanying fellow travellers as they respond to God's presence is one of life's joys. The journey continues...